Mario Kassar
Highest Rated: 100% Rambling Rose (1991)
Lowest Rated: 6% Basic Instinct 2 (2006)
Birthday: Oct 10, 1951
Birthplace: Beirut, Lebanon
A major figure in international film distribution turned studio head and leading producer of big-budget Hollywood action fare, Kassar is reputed to be the youngest person to ever form his own foreign distribution company, Kassar Films International. Created in 1969 when the future mogul was a mere 18, the firm specialized in the sale, distribution, and exhibition of feature films throughout Asia and Europe. Before long Kassar also boasted successful offices in Rome and Paris. In 1976, he formed Carolco Pictures, Inc. with partner Andrew Vajna, whom he had met while on a business trip to Hong Kong. Kassar and Vajna moved from distribution and sales into production in 1978.
Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Foxtrot Six | Executive Producer | - | 2019 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | In Search of The Last Action Heroes | Self | - | 2019 |
| 33% | 53% | Terminator Salvation | Executive Producer | $125.3M | 2009 |
| 6% | 26% | Basic Instinct 2 | Producer | $5.9M | 2006 |
| 69% | 46% | Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines | Producer | $150.4M | 2003 |
| 15% | 33% | I Spy | Producer | $33.1M | 2002 |
| 69% | 75% | Lolita | Producer | $1.4M | 1997 |
| 23% | 37% | Showgirls | Executive Producer | $19.3M | 1995 |
| 52% | 73% | Stargate | Executive Producer | $70.9M | 1994 |
| 57% | 63% | Basic Instinct | Executive Producer | - | 1992 |
| 86% | 64% | Light Sleeper | Executive Producer | $1.0M | 1992 |
| 59% | 81% | Chaplin | Producer | $8.3M | 1992 |
| 34% | 46% | Universal Soldier | Executive Producer | $35.4M | 1992 |
| 57% | 79% | The Doors | Executive Producer | $32.7M | 1991 |
| 100% | 54% | Rambling Rose | Executive Producer | $6.3M | 1991 |
| 93% | 75% | L.A. Story | Executive Producer | $25.8M | 1991 |
| 92% | 95% | Terminator 2: Judgment Day | Executive Producer | $552.8K | 1991 |
| 83% | 79% | Total Recall | Executive Producer | $117.8M | 1990 |
| 72% | 84% | Jacob's Ladder | Executive Producer | $24.8M | 1990 |
| 63% | 51% | Narrow Margin | Executive Producer | $10.1M | 1990 |
| 13% | 34% | Air America | Executive Producer | $29.2M | 1990 |
| 15% | 25% | DeepStar Six | Executive Producer | $7.9M | 1989 |
| 41% | 45% | Rambo III | Producer | $53.7M | 1988 |
| 68% | 37% | Red Heat | Executive Producer | $35.0M | 1988 |
| 82% | 81% | Angel Heart | Executive Producer | $14.4M | 1987 |
| 33% | 60% | Rambo: First Blood Part II | Executive Producer | $150.2M | 1985 |
| 86% | 85% | First Blood | Executive Producer | - | 1982 |